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For many indigenous people, Thanksgiving isn’t about breaking bread with colonists. It’s a national day of mourning.
Of all the things Esther Begam says she regretted in life, it was never finishing school.
Especially the parts about Squanto the "friendly Indian."
“Some would say, ‘Why be so dark about it?’ Well, it's real, it's truthful, it was a holocaust,” says the head of the Mashpee Wampanoag tribal council.
The real story of the first Thanksgiving is neither as simple nor as consoling as the pared down account we learned in history class would suggest.